Company Number: SC000406
Date of Incorporation: I January 1881
Contact Details: www.ai-welders.co.uk, AI Welders, Dalcross Industrial Estate, Inverness, Inverness-Shire IV2 7XB
Operating Details: Please see company history. The company registered under this number was dissolved 30 September 2005, but the successor organisation, AI Welders Ltd, is still an ongoing concern.
Other names (if known): Northern Agricultural Implement Foundry Co. 1872-1895
Rose Street Foundry & Engineering Co. 1895-1945
Resistance Welders Ltd. 1945-1962
A.I. Welders Ltd. 1962-1992
Function of Company*: Manufacture of other metalworking tools (welding) (2942)
Headquarters/Base of Operations Location: Inverness
Area of Operation: Exports worldwide
*Taken from Standard Industrial Classification 2003, as used by Companies House in 2010
Scope/type: Minute Books, 1872-1986; Statement of Accounts and Annual Returns, 1922-1991; Articles of Association and Incorporation, 1938-1985; Director's Correspondence Files 1964-1987; Employees Welfare Fund (Resistance Welders Ltd) 1951-1991; Pension Fund, 1958-1965; Company Reports, 1980s; Patent Application & Renewals, 1970s; Ledgers & Order Books, 1938-1966; Shipping Logs and registration documents, 1913-1920; Seals Register Books, 1966-1984; Plant Registers 1937-1963; Technical Manuals and Papers, 1952-1973; Sales & Publicity, 1915-1991; Staff Records, 1939-1951; Visitor's Books, 1950-1992; Misc. documents including those received from ex employees following 1992 exhibition, 1872-1999; Glass Slides and negatives, 1930s-1940s; Photographs, 1940s-1964; Films, 1944; Plans, 1866-1972; Name Plates and Other objects, n.d.
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Company History
The Company began by manufacturing agricultural implements and wire fencing and operating as a general iron foundry. It grew with the arrival of the railway in the Highlands and later diversified into marine engineering. In 1908 Sam Hunter-Gordon joined the company, initiating a family involvement with the company which lasted for 70 years and inspired its successes. The Foundry prospered during World War I, during the depression of the 1930s, acquisition of a Bradford firm and the patent for resistance welding saved the company and led to considerable success during World War II and later at home and overseas. Changes of ownership between 1973 and 1985 culminated in the closure of the firm in 1991; it was re-established in the same year through a management buyout. This successor firm is known as AI Welders Limited, SC131795, and was incorporated in 1991.
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Rose Street Engineering (1985) Limited
Company Number: SC000406
Date of Incorporation: I January 1881
Contact Details: www.ai-welders.co.uk, AI Welders, Dalcross Industrial Estate, Inverness, Inverness-Shire IV2 7XB
Operating Details: Please see company history. The company registered under this number was dissolved 30 September 2005, but the successor organisation, AI Welders Ltd, is still an ongoing concern.
Other names (if known): Northern Agricultural Implement Foundry Co. 1872-1895
Rose Street Foundry & Engineering Co. 1895-1945
Resistance Welders Ltd. 1945-1962
A.I. Welders Ltd. 1962-1992
Function of Company*: Manufacture of other metalworking tools (welding) (2942)
Headquarters/Base of Operations Location: Inverness
Area of Operation: Exports worldwide
*Taken from Standard Industrial Classification 2003, as used by Companies House in 2010
Records
Held By: Highlands Council Archive GB0232/D1
Scope/type: Minute Books, 1872-1986; Statement of Accounts and Annual Returns, 1922-1991; Articles of Association and Incorporation, 1938-1985; Director's Correspondence Files 1964-1987; Employees Welfare Fund (Resistance Welders Ltd) 1951-1991; Pension Fund, 1958-1965; Company Reports, 1980s; Patent Application & Renewals, 1970s; Ledgers & Order Books, 1938-1966; Shipping Logs and registration documents, 1913-1920; Seals Register Books, 1966-1984; Plant Registers 1937-1963; Technical Manuals and Papers, 1952-1973; Sales & Publicity, 1915-1991; Staff Records, 1939-1951; Visitor's Books, 1950-1992; Misc. documents including those received from ex employees following 1992 exhibition, 1872-1999; Glass Slides and negatives, 1930s-1940s; Photographs, 1940s-1964; Films, 1944; Plans, 1866-1972; Name Plates and Other objects, n.d.
Conditions governing access/use: See usual terms of Highland Council Archive, subject to DPA
Related records:
Company History
The Company began by manufacturing agricultural implements and wire fencing and operating as a general iron foundry. It grew with the arrival of the railway in the Highlands and later diversified into marine engineering. In 1908 Sam Hunter-Gordon joined the company, initiating a family involvement with the company which lasted for 70 years and inspired its successes. The Foundry prospered during World War I, during the depression of the 1930s, acquisition of a Bradford firm and the patent for resistance welding saved the company and led to considerable success during World War II and later at home and overseas. Changes of ownership between 1973 and 1985 culminated in the closure of the firm in 1991; it was re-established in the same year through a management buyout. This successor firm is known as AI Welders Limited, SC131795, and was incorporated in 1991.
Information provided by Highlands Council Archive, reused with permission